atthaṅgamo

atthaṅgama

masc nom sg of atthaṅgama (noun)

disappearance; vanishing; settling down; subsiding; passing away (of); lit. going home
(of the sun) setting; going down

Built from

attha — root · home, destination
The substantive sense of 'goal' or 'ultimate end'; related to the verbal root athā.
ṅgama — stem · going, motion
Derives from √gam (to go, cognate with English 'come', Latin 'venire'). The ṅ represents a nasal infix typical of Pali nominalization; the full form would be gamana.

Analysis. atthaṅgama is a compound: attha (home, destination) + gamanam (going), literally 'going home' or 'going to the destination'; applied especially to the sun's descent below the horizon and metaphorically to the cessation or dissolution of states.

Etymology. attha derives from the root athā (origin obscure, possibly related to Sanskrit asthā 'dwelling-place') combined with gama from √gam (to go), which cognates with English 'come' and Latin 'venire'. The compound uses gamanam (the verbal noun of √gam), literally 'a going to the destination'.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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